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[00:00:11] three years of transformation
[00:00:15] and the story carries on in the federal
[00:00:19] capital
[00:00:21] of territory, the new chapter has
[00:00:24] begun,
[00:00:26] of every road tells a story, every school tells a story.
[00:00:30] Every city
[00:00:31] of tells a story, some stories are written in history
[00:00:34] books, others are written in roads that connect
[00:00:39] of communities, in clean water flowing into homes, in
[00:00:42] schools that inspire learning and in public
[00:00:45] spaces that restore hope, an opportunity in
[00:00:49] access and in the daily lives of ordinary
[00:00:52] people. For the federal capital territory,
[00:00:56] of the last three years have
[00:00:58] in witnessed an ambitious drive to reach. shape infrastructure,
[00:01:01] improve public services and expand development across
[00:01:05] the six area councils. this says the story of that
[00:01:09] journey and
[00:01:10] of the people whose lives have been shaped by
[00:01:16] of it. when
[00:01:21] of president chief as minister
[00:01:24] of the Nigeria's capital city on August 21,
[00:01:27] 2023, expectation were
[00:01:30] of high, road networks left incomplete, communities
[00:01:34] yarning for portable water, transport systems under
[00:01:38] pressure, growing satellite towns demanding greater government
[00:01:42] presence, the task ahead was enormous, must
[00:01:46] bring the city back what supposed to
[00:01:48] be, and we are
[00:01:51] willing and we have the
[00:01:53] capacity to do that. testimonials
[00:01:57] abound that the
[00:01:59] of transformation on fold
[00:02:00] in the federal capital territory is not a departure from the
[00:02:03] past, but a continuation of a proven
[00:02:07] legacy for many, the projects and reforms under
[00:02:10] Mr. Project,
[00:02:12] a reflection
[00:02:13] of the experience and track record he established during
[00:02:17] his two terms as governor of River
[00:02:19] State. No matter how you look at it, the last 10
[00:02:23] years, the FCT was totally dead
[00:02:26] infrastructurally, totally dead in terms of '
[00:02:30] development and opportunities, but today in this
[00:02:34] country, FCT rivals Legos in the
[00:02:38] amount of investments that are
[00:02:40] of going into uh both cities, that is
[00:02:42] unprecedented, you cannot but give
[00:02:46] credit to what the minister has been able to
[00:02:50] do here and also to the president who saw through the politics
[00:02:53] and saw the value he could get from this particular
[00:02:56] individual and brought him here to the FCT so...
[00:03:00] I think some
[00:03:00] of these facts are self-evident and um we just
[00:03:04] would like to commend him and ask him
[00:03:07] to keep trying um lot of new roads, lot
[00:03:11] of new flyovers, some
[00:03:12] of these projects have been outstanding for 20 years, awarded
[00:03:16] without any effort whatsoever put into
[00:03:20] them, and today we're seeing that lot of those projects have
[00:03:23] been completed and are being brought into
[00:03:29] of use.
[00:03:33] "I think um, Mr. President made his best appointment
[00:03:36] ever on the 21st of August 2023, that is three
[00:03:40] years
[00:03:41] a ago, and that appointment is appointing Mr.
[00:03:45] Projects to stare
[00:03:47] the affairs
[00:03:47] of the federal capital territory. Of course, by the end of his first year
[00:03:51] we could see the mirrid of achievements that he made
[00:03:55] infrastructurally and
[00:03:57] na otherwise, and he's in structure development is
[00:04:01] not only about
[00:04:03] na roads and bridges, it goes across all
[00:04:05] sectors,
[00:04:10] the impacts of this present administration,
[00:04:13] of particularly
[00:04:14] of the honorable minister has spread across
[00:04:17] every
[00:04:18] of the
[00:04:20] of sectors
[00:04:20] of the communities in FCT, let me
[00:04:24] start with the civil service, he when he came on board, one thing he
[00:04:28] did was to... the legal frameworks that was available
[00:04:32] and get approval to reject the FCT civil
[00:04:36] service and in doing
[00:04:38] that our people can now aspire to higher
[00:04:42] of positions, so it were very difficult for people to
[00:04:46] assent to such position to to get to such position in the civil
[00:04:50] service, they stay too
[00:04:52] in long as directors and work with an imported
[00:04:56] permanent secretary from the federal service and
[00:05:00] get retired while they are meet on subordinates of primanent
[00:05:03] of secretaries and and retire
[00:05:05] of with of those privileges and conveniences.
[00:05:08] now without reforms people
[00:05:13] uh natives that are in here, the natives of fc here
[00:05:16] cannot aspire and work and prepare themselves
[00:05:20] towards that career parts that someday they are
[00:05:24] likely to become permanent secretaries
[00:05:27] and as said that he's been able
[00:05:30] to also uh reject the
[00:05:34] entire administrative systems in fct uh we are
[00:05:37] now feeling as the constitution provided that FCT is a
[00:05:41] state. and he's running that as a state, we've
[00:05:44] had um, we now have head of
[00:05:47] service of we've had two, three
[00:05:51] successful persons into those offices
[00:05:53] and that is an
[00:05:56] impact,
[00:06:03] sincerly speaking, i will thank the
[00:06:06] present of federal republic of nigeria, amen
[00:06:10] b for appointing the honorary
[00:06:13] minister
[00:06:15] yenson wike
[00:06:19] to come and by lot the affairs of FST
[00:06:23] administration, you know,
[00:06:27] I had about our minister
[00:06:30] some years back when he was
[00:06:33] contesting for governorship in River
[00:06:36] states,
[00:06:40] that is an upright,
[00:06:43] individual that whatever he says
[00:06:46] it is done and how
[00:06:50] did i give to know that? it was true one of my
[00:06:53] subjects call
[00:06:55] senator so i was telling
[00:06:59] senator
[00:07:00] this this man is he going to win this
[00:07:03] election he told me that definitely is going to
[00:07:07] win because they've ever
[00:07:10] worked together with him when he was the chairman
[00:07:14] kujiera council our minister was the chairman river
[00:07:18] state in the local government and he
[00:07:21] said he was up and doing
[00:07:24] passing so definitely is going to win that
[00:07:27] election and when i heard about the
[00:07:31] announcement that it is the
[00:07:35] minister that is coming to Abuja he too was very very
[00:07:38] happy that is senator that definitely is
[00:07:42] coming, we are going to see lot of transformation in
[00:07:45] FCT,
[00:07:52] for him to have identified
[00:07:55] barristerson UK and appointed him as the
[00:07:59] minister of FCT, I think I was one of those who
[00:08:02] raised my turn for him, so when he was appointed
[00:08:06] minister of FCT
[00:08:10] and given the performance. is that he
[00:08:14] had in riversated as a governor, i
[00:08:17] had no doubt that he was coming to
[00:08:20] perform better and he was
[00:08:24] coming to take FCT to another level,
[00:08:28] which she has done now, everybody is
[00:08:30] a little living witnesses today that the man has taken
[00:08:34] FCT to another level, whether you are his enemy,
[00:08:38] whether you don't like his face or whatever, the man
[00:08:42] has taken FCT to another
[00:08:44] level,
[00:08:49] I got to know the minister when he
[00:08:53] was honorable minister of state for education and I think in
[00:08:57] 2013, as a 2013, I was the principal
[00:09:01] in junior secondary school, but actually was the pioneer principal of that
[00:09:05] school, and then I started studying
[00:09:08] him and I was seeing leadership, from being in the education.
[00:09:12] sector, I was in education too, and I saw the strides he
[00:09:16] was, the achievements he was making as a minister of
[00:09:19] state, and then I wrote an article, I introduced him to my students,
[00:09:23] I wrote an article in the median edition the school magazine,
[00:09:27] then meet the man, some wiki, I
[00:09:31] never had an idea, I mean this was in 2013,
[00:09:35] I never knew that some day I will come to work with
[00:09:38] him closely like that.
[00:09:45] In just three years, hundreds of infrastructure projects
[00:09:49] were initiated, revived or completed.
[00:09:53] Major road corridors connected communities once
[00:09:56] isolated by por access, water
[00:10:00] infrastructure expanded to previously under south
[00:10:03] districts, transportation received renewed
[00:10:07] attention through modern bus terminals
[00:10:10] and strategic transit corridors. public schools, health
[00:10:14] facilities and urban renewal projects became
[00:10:17] part of a broader development agenda. uh,
[00:10:21] Mr. Project, the FCT minister have done so...
[00:10:25] well for Abuja, the
[00:10:27] FCT, um,
[00:10:30] sometimes, I would say, I talk to the
[00:10:34] people around me and I, I tell them, I say, are you sure this
[00:10:38] project, Mr. Project is doing, are they real
[00:10:42] projects or are they AI generated projects?
[00:10:46] because the pace, the quality and the
[00:10:50] size the project which he carries out,
[00:10:54] I want to see... sincerly congratulate you,
[00:10:57] the FCT minister, our very own mister
[00:11:00] project, sincery speaking, not on the basis
[00:11:04] of sentiments, you have done so well, how
[00:11:08] you do what you do we don't know, you did this
[00:11:12] in River State, which I'm a proud
[00:11:16] indigent of, and that makes you our father,
[00:11:19] and here you are, making us proud again in the f
[00:11:22] city, 'there's no
[00:11:26] amount of thank you that we will say to you that will be
[00:11:30] enough for raising our heads up
[00:11:33] high for flying and carrying us up
[00:11:37] high there, you have done so well and how you
[00:11:41] work so tirelessly still amazes us,
[00:11:45] irrespective the
[00:11:47] criticism, criticisms are good and welcome when they are
[00:11:51] very constructive, but the very unconstructive'.
[00:11:55] criticism that are born out of hate and
[00:11:58] jealousy, with all that, you still keep it flying,
[00:12:02] still achieving giant strides, we want to say
[00:12:06] thank you. across every sector touched by the wike
[00:12:09] administration, the story is remarkably
[00:12:13] consistent, deliberate focus on
[00:12:16] transformation, a commitment to delivery,
[00:12:19] determination to turn plants into tangible results for the
[00:12:23] people the federal. capital
[00:12:25] territory,
[00:12:30] mean you can't walk with wik and then not feel, know
[00:12:34] that this is good governance or good
[00:12:37] leadership.
[00:12:43] what places my heart is that it does not focus on road
[00:12:46] projects only in the municipality, he also looks at the
[00:12:50] suburbs, and the LGAs, for the first time in the history of
[00:12:54] Abuja.
[00:12:55] the the suburbs, the LGS are getting um, the satellite towns and
[00:12:59] communities are getting serious attention, you know,
[00:13:02] and that has reduced you know the
[00:13:05] overconcentration of people within the
[00:13:09] municipality,
[00:13:10] you know, that has also increased the value of land and
[00:13:13] property around the area, another thing that pleases my heart
[00:13:17] is, the ease with which he
[00:13:21] signs c ofos, hear he has signed over 25.
[00:13:25] CFOs, which
[00:13:26] is more
[00:13:26] than all
[00:13:27] they have signed 13 years ago put
[00:13:28] together.
[00:13:35] The minister empowed our local
[00:13:37] vigilantes, he bought motorcycles
[00:13:41] and distributed all over the federal capital
[00:13:45] territory, and that is the movement
[00:13:49] of our local vigilanty. In
[00:13:52] fact, that was one the reason. by
[00:13:55] today, especially in council, you
[00:13:59] hardly hear of banditry or
[00:14:03] kidnapping activities injena, it was as
[00:14:06] result of that
[00:14:09] empowerment he gave our local vigilanty,
[00:14:13] because the minister came down and met with
[00:14:17] us, we discussed it over and over
[00:14:20] and he promised he is going to do his best, and actually he
[00:14:24] did.
[00:14:29] uh, come to
[00:14:31] infrastructures, there's
[00:14:35] a street here within Quali
[00:14:38] that the minister completed and named after Dr.
[00:14:42] Lidi, that's
[00:14:45] street, the contract was awarded for, I think over
[00:14:49] 16 years and about two or three
[00:14:51] administrations uh worked on that. that
[00:14:55] street and couldn't complete it, but the minister came out
[00:14:59] within one month that was completed and
[00:15:02] commissioned. we have the yangoji sukuku
[00:15:06] road in the 80s and even early
[00:15:10] this like in 2023 you
[00:15:13] really could travel along that
[00:15:17] route without having hitches, in
[00:15:21] fact it became um the den for criminals because uh
[00:15:25] British surveillances were very difficult because the state
[00:15:29] the road, the local government made
[00:15:32] attempts to grading the road, but wassing the
[00:15:36] situation. but the minister
[00:15:38] allocate
[00:15:42] uh um picked that project as one of his
[00:15:46] um uh work to do and he completed it, you
[00:15:50] can go see that road, the roads we used to travel
[00:15:53] like 45 to one hour to get to those
[00:15:57] community, you cannot fly within 10
[00:16:00] minutes and it's
[00:16:03] good for everyone and one impact that... has
[00:16:07] created is to open weight
[00:16:10] for um farmers to bring out the bring out
[00:16:14] their goods and then improves the value the lands in those
[00:16:18] areas and make the community accessible uh
[00:16:22] to people and also provides conveniences for people to
[00:16:26] travel uh uh seamlessly we also
[00:16:30] have the pay gommeny road uh
[00:16:34] the pi gomini dafa roads i we say
[00:16:38] we awarded and and completed and
[00:16:42] what's that uh that job uh has done is
[00:16:46] to connect four political words they
[00:16:49] were neglected and that road
[00:16:53] is one the most important route to the
[00:16:56] denfats
[00:16:58] because uh tax
[00:17:01] collectors use those routes to assess communities to
[00:17:05] get tax for the den colonial administration,
[00:17:08] but yet nobody remembered, and one of
[00:17:12] those projects, the president and the
[00:17:16] commander and chief himself commissioned part of
[00:17:19] that projects sometime last year,
[00:17:22] so it's a
[00:17:25] lot that has happened concerning
[00:17:29] road
[00:17:29] infrastructures.
[00:17:36] i was on but as a permanent secretary of
[00:17:40] transportation we saw the
[00:17:44] rail project come to life, as at
[00:17:47] today, even after commissioning in 2024, the rail
[00:17:51] is still run free, there's no
[00:17:54] payment, and I know the number of
[00:17:57] committers that rail has
[00:18:01] carried since the inauguration till now, just not to go too
[00:18:04] far, few weeks ago we commission 31.
[00:18:07] projects w all around the whole of f
[00:18:10] city. followed up to one commissioning
[00:18:14] the pi gomani road and the president
[00:18:18] himself came for the commissioning of that project if you have my
[00:18:22] own lifetime growing up as a child never saw any nigerian president in my village
[00:18:26] never did that and so for president
[00:18:29] Ahmed to have come to the villages
[00:18:33] mean what they have done in fct is like
[00:18:36] bringing hope, renewing, restoring
[00:18:40] hope, they renewed hope, restoring
[00:18:44] hope, and so I think um, that's a
[00:18:48] good way to highlight what they are
[00:18:51] doing, I'm really impressed by what the
[00:18:54] FCT administration is doing in terms of connectivity between the
[00:18:58] local community and the city, before now we didn't have
[00:19:02] that, but with the construction of roads to local
[00:19:06] community, that enable people to move faster to the
[00:19:10] city and back again, not only people, even the goods
[00:19:13] also.
[00:19:20] i want to start by appreciating
[00:19:24] mr. president, the president of federal republic of
[00:19:27] Nigeria, his excellency, president
[00:19:31] Bola Ahmad Tinibu for giving us Mr.
[00:19:34] Projects as the FCT Minister.
[00:19:41] I want to specifically talk on
[00:19:45] the support, the empowerment this
[00:19:48] administration has brought to FCT
[00:19:51] natives, days are
[00:19:54] gone that lot the
[00:19:58] youth in FCT has nowhere
[00:20:01] to go and seek for empowerment, but with the
[00:20:05] advent of this administration,
[00:20:13] an organization,
[00:20:15] operates open secretariat for that, and that is the
[00:20:19] native of FCT to work from the
[00:20:23] adomer to that place to assess their
[00:20:26] empowerment. The first thing he
[00:20:29] does, immediately he arrab to
[00:20:31] FCT, is distribution of over 30
[00:20:35] vehicles to the... of FCT,
[00:20:39] as you can see behind me is one the vehicle
[00:20:43] distributed and it was given to us as
[00:20:47] the native of FCT and that...
[00:20:50] is our transportation
[00:20:53] across the villages in
[00:20:55] fc.
[00:21:01] he really assists the kuali area council by constructing this
[00:21:05] roads and about four five years ago even to
[00:21:09] to drive machine from here to to pay it will take you
[00:21:13] one and half hour but now is just less than 15
[00:21:17] minutes drive to pay there are so many villages. insights
[00:21:21] that used to produce their foods at times before they get to the
[00:21:25] market it will take them one two to three days before they get to market but today
[00:21:28] buyers used to follow them down to that place you see this road
[00:21:32] now before this road was empty the road used to be empty before
[00:21:36] nobody by this junction before when you pass that place it was a dust the dust will
[00:21:40] cover you but now you can see the the number of people that are gathering there
[00:21:44] they are up to 100 and and some them used to make 20,000 a
[00:21:48] day for as a profit some to make 30,000 as a
[00:21:51] profit for the benefit of this
[00:21:53] road.
[00:21:58] i want to start by specially thank his
[00:22:01] excellency presidentibu, the president of
[00:22:05] federal republic of Nigeria that have touched the three
[00:22:09] aspect of human life or even more than three aspect of human life in Kuali
[00:22:13] Area Council, security, education and
[00:22:17] infrastructure. so we want to say very big thank you. to president
[00:22:20] the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as our
[00:22:24] working minister, his excellency,
[00:22:28] barrister Nelson Wike. I want to shock you or surprise you that the day
[00:22:32] they were commissioning this route, the president came down himself to come
[00:22:36] and commission this route, seen the president renewed
[00:22:40] my hope and now believe that the best thing that will happen
[00:22:44] to Nigeria and Nigerians in 2027 is to return
[00:22:47] to as the president of federal republic of
[00:22:51] Nigeria, as such, I want to say thank you to Mr.
[00:22:54] President, thank you to our walking minister, and God bless
[00:22:57] you.
[00:23:02] I want to tell you that the kind of developmental
[00:23:05] stride that Kuje in the last two to three years
[00:23:09] has experience was
[00:23:12] massive, was unprecedented. Thank God for the
[00:23:16] president that brought the work and... do
[00:23:20] minister week he has engaged in
[00:23:23] construction of roads across kuje area council kuje has
[00:23:27] been has now been connected to other part
[00:23:30] the FCT and it's in line with
[00:23:33] the renew help of
[00:23:35] presidentubu thank god for
[00:23:38] presidentubu for bringing the minister that has people
[00:23:42] in
[00:23:42] hearts
[00:23:47] we have portable clean and safe water in
[00:23:51] the area councils, at least we have to say we
[00:23:55] thank,
[00:23:56] we thank the president for using our minister,
[00:24:00] help
[00:24:00] us
[00:24:06] with water, development is measured not only by announcement,
[00:24:10] but by what people experienced in kwali, roads
[00:24:14] traveled in kuje, water flowing in buari, children
[00:24:17] learning across the territory,
[00:24:28] mazaunin garin kuje ne, na zauna garin kuje sama da
[00:24:31] shekara goma, yanda wannan gari yake ada,
[00:24:35] gaskiya muna shan wahala sosai a wannan gari,
[00:24:38] sakamakon rashin hanya, musamman idan ababen hawa suna
[00:24:42] wucewa za ka ga kura yana damun mu ta ko'ina, musamman kuma ni
[00:24:46] da yake dan kasuwa ne bakin hanya, na sayar da kasuwanci a... bakin
[00:24:50] hanya, zaka ga duk bayan minti biyar goma sai kakaba, so
[00:24:54] amma gaskiya yanzu, alhamdulillah, zaka iya gani yanzu,
[00:24:58] kowane hannu mota ɗaya biyu suna wucewa ba tare da akwai wani holdo
[00:25:01] ba, so a gaskiya muna godiya da wannan ayyuka da aka yi mana garin
[00:25:05] kuje, hanya ta samu kuma mun samu kwanciyar hankali, muna
[00:25:09] rukon Allah ya ba mu wayannan shuwagabanni na
[00:25:11] mu ikon yin wannan ayyuka ta
[00:25:13] ko'ina.
[00:25:18] the appointment of
[00:25:21] the honorable minister of
[00:25:22] fc
[00:25:28] is a
[00:25:30] blessing, it's one the best things that
[00:25:34] have happened to
[00:25:35] fc.
[00:25:41] it's not done yet, a couple of days or months, i know is going to commission
[00:25:45] more projects, but work is never finished, there's still a lot more to
[00:25:48] do, it's not just
[00:26:02] back, I'm sure people of FCT will
[00:26:06] request that Mr. We brought
[00:26:09] back to complete what he has put down as an
[00:26:13] agenda for the
[00:26:14] FCD.
[00:26:19] In all facet of life in FCT, he has touched
[00:26:23] almost everywhere. The good governance group recognizes that
[00:26:27] cities are never finished, every generation
[00:26:30] adds another chapter. The story the federal capital
[00:26:34] territory continues writting through its
[00:26:37] people, its communities and the choices
[00:26:41] that shape tomorrow. The next chapter begins
[00:26:45] today. Three years of
[00:26:47] transformation.
[00:26:52] Three years are moving
[00:26:54] forward,
[00:26:58] building roads, building bridges.
[00:27:03] building hope for
[00:27:05] tomorrow,
[00:27:09] three years of
[00:27:10] transformation,
[00:27:14] new star is being told
[00:27:18] in the
[00:27:22] federal capital
[00:27:23] territory, vision
[00:27:27] is taking
[00:27:28] home.
[00:27:33] Six area councils, one vision, many
[00:27:36] communities, one dream, opportunity for
[00:27:40] every citizen, let development reach every
[00:27:43] street where there once were unfinished
[00:27:46] stories, now the work is moving on,
[00:27:50] where communities cried for water, new
[00:27:54] possibilities.
[00:30:31] Good evening everyone. and welcome to sunday politics live on
[00:30:35] channel's television, i am sh for you here in
[00:30:38] Abuja, the APC is getting
[00:30:41] defectters, the party received new members and their
[00:30:45] parties national secretariat in Abuja and the
[00:30:49] reasons for the defactor's movement into the ruling
[00:30:53] party are clear, take a listen to them, we are not here for any
[00:30:57] financial gain we